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Council Election 2020
Convocation has elected four candidates to serve on the UCT Council for the period 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2024. They are Marlene le Roux, Shuaib Manjra, Dumisa Ntsebeza and Christopher Vaughan.
Read more and see the elected candidates’ bios.
22 May 2020

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UCT leads, in Africa, in all of the five major world university rankings: Times Higher Education, Quacquarelli Symonds, Center for World University Rankings, US News Best Global Universities and ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities.

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Times Higher Education

UCT moved 20 places to 136th position in the latest 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

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US News

The sixth edition of the US News Best Global Universities rankings saw UCT being ranked 121st globally for 2020.

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South African Genetics Society & the Southern African Society for Bioinformatics Joint Conference: BIO2021

The South African Genetics Society and the South African Society for Bioinformatics welcomes you to the Joint BIO2021 Conference.

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Food Programme 2020

The purpose of the Food Programme is to provide basic support to students who are hungry and to enhance student learning and success.

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